<p>For some reason, I wound up seeing Pippin a few times. I remember being particularly excited to see Irene Ryan, because her name was familiar to me from the Beverly Hillbillies! I didn’t know enough to be excited to see Ben Vereen.</p>
<p>(I also felt the same way when my parents took me to see The Enchanted at the Kennedy Center when I was about 8…Fred Gwynne was in it and I knew him from the Munsters! Elizabeth Ashley was the star but I’d never heard of her so I was unimpressed.)</p>